Asian city to country with clues

Formerly known as Krasnovodsk, Kyzyl-Su, and Shagadam.

With a record low of −47C and high of 38, that gives a temperature range of 85 degrees in variation.

In 2008, the monarchy here was abolished; this was a key part of a peace deal with Maoist guerrillas.

The main port of the delta of the Red River (also known as the Hong, Sông Cái, or Yuan).

The 1882 purchase of this land here within the Ottoman Empire, to found this city, shaped the pattern of Jewish settlement henceforth.

Western city home to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors F.C.

City in Zhejiang featuring a 354-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower and architecture resembling that of Paris.

This was the location of the invasive body search scandal in 2020, after a baby was found abandoned in an airport bin.

Border town at the edge of the Fergana Valley,

Jesus, St. Paul, Elijah and Herod are all said by the Bible to have visited this seaport.

Some people have been publicly executed here for watching South Korean pop videos.

Northern outpost where the temperature extremes are -47 and 37, a range of 84 degrees C.

This city sits at almost 8,000 feet altitude.

Southern city whose name comes from the mahat tree, a relative of jackfruits.

Has a large Azeri population.

The former capital of the Siamese province of Inner Cambodia.

St. Catherine's monastery was established here by the emperor Justinian.

Home town of Tahir Karimli, the MP who released a video of himself reciting a threatening poem while wielding a plastic dinosaur.

The third-largest settlement in the country, and the location of its only international airport.

This desert oasis location on the Omani border is the largest inland settlement in the country.

In 2011, 27 people died in river accidents in this debauched party town, which was later the scene of the fatal methanol spiked drinks scandal.

Birthplace of Sabiha Gökçen, the world's first female fighter pilot.

A boy was treated at the hospital here in 2024 after surviving a tiger attack by pulling the animal's tongue.

Formerly named Leninakan. Was at the epicentre of the worst earthquake disaster of the 1980s.

Home to football club Canal F.C.

The Sultan's palace in this city housed his 150 female slaves in the 1960s.

Located just south of the nominal capital, this has been the seat of government since 1999, and of the judiciary since 2003.

A false rumour about salt shortages led to panic buying of salt here in 2019; two traders were arrested for stockpiling by a mobile court (basically a magistrate in a minibus).

The Ottomans destroyed this city in the 1850s.

Once a major centre of Islamic scholarship.

Ancient city dating back to the building of a Xiongnu fortress. In 750AD there was a battle here between the Tang and the Abbasid Caliphate; one of its outcomes was the introduction of paper to the West.

Oil hub in the east of the country, taken by enemy troops in the 1991 war.

The capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. Its isolated location led to it being chosen for the site of a chemical research institute, the major research and testing site for the Novichok agent,

Highland city named Saltus ("forest" in Latin) by the Byzantine Empire.

Formerly called Qurghonteppa, it was the epicentre of the 1990s war.

Northern city in Baghlan Province, the site of an Islamic State bombing in 2023

The HQ of the national oil company is located here.